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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-29
MAINE DINPATCHEN.
MAINE M ETHODiSTS.
Bishop Walden Delivers Powerful Ad.
dress at the Na'e,vilIe Conference.

WATERvILLE. April 2S
Bishop Walden made brief but powerful
address on administering the sacrament at
the Methodist conference Thursday forenoon
on the power of Christ, 'if he be lifted IN
to draw all men unto Him" He mentioned
the fact that all Methodist conferences are
now openad with this appropriate service.
."Christ is coming, has come to many hearts,
is coming to the island of the sea, is coming
to reign" After the sacrament. the confer
ence was organized and proceeded to busi.
ness. Rev. Geo. c. Andrews was chosen
secretary; Rev. G. Foss, assistant; Rev T.
F. Jones, statistical secretary; Rev. W. F.
Berry, financial secretary.
A2A missionary sermon was preache by Rev.
E. S. Stackpole; text, II Cor. IL IA. The
sermon was in the form of an object lesson,
illustrated by large maps of the world, and
the theme was, "The power of the gospel to
convert and save men wherever it is preached
and the need of money to carry on the work. "
1t was voted to meet in the morning at 8
o'clock, and adjourned at II M. to meet at
2.3O.
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NEW HAM PSHlRE.
M Methodist Conference in Session at
Nashua.

NASHUA, N. H., April 28.
The New Hampshire conference opened
this morning. large number of ministers
took part in the Lords supper. S. E. Quinby
was elected secretary. The assistants are o
S. Baketel, N. S. Alger, c. II. Lee; statisti-
cal secretaries, E. p. S. Dearborn, T. F.
Spauldng, w. Bussell, J. M. Trow, c. j.
Chase.
Ths usual reports were presented and ac-
cepted and staddng COMMITTEES appointed. A
communication from the general conference
reducing votes OF the delegates to one for ev-
cry ninety ministers to the gederal confer
ence and asking for concurrence of the New
Hampshire conference was read by the secre-
tary and non .concurred in, the vote standing
in favor and 65 opposed.
Rev. Dr. Hunt of the book concern of New
York city, addressed the conference on the
success of its publications and its financial
standing. better now than ever before, max
ing more books and papers last year than in
its history, the sales being one million, ten
thousand copies of the different publications.
Rev. J. NJ. Calvert delivered an instructive
address, relating to Sunday school work.
The afternoon session of the New Hamp
shire NJ. E. Conference was devoted to ami
versarv gathering at which there was it,
creased attendance. This evening there was
another large audience in attendance at the
meeting of the Freedmens Aid Society. AT
the forenoon session it was voted that the
Kelley beQuest pass into the hands of the con-
ference stewards for distribution.
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BIGNESS OF THE MAINE.
Inc Northern Railroad Leased to the
Boston q Lowell, and the Boston 4
Lowell swallows the Whole.

CONCORD, n II. April IS.
The directors OF the Northern Railroad
nave leased the road TO the Boston & Lowell
railroad for SO years, subject to a vote of the
stockholders. The terms of the lease are :
per cent for ten years and 6 per cen. there.
after The lease is made on the supposition
that the Legislation needed TO change the
present law can be obtained at the present
session of the legislature.
The lease of the Boston & Lowell to the
Boston Maine was signed by the directors
IN Boston, Thursday, giving to the latter cor.
poratlon the roads now leased to the former,
including the Passumpsic, Northern, Boston.
Concord and Montreal, and Concord and
Claremont. The controlling interest in the
Manchester Lawrence, now held by Col.
Chas A. Sinclair, will be transferred to the
Boston Maine, giving them the entire sys.
tenn of New Hampshire railroads except the
Concord railroad
If the next legislature grants the request
to be made in behalf of the Boston & Mai ne,
unless the Concord railroad goes into the con-
troll of the Boston & Maine either bv lease or
traffic agreement. bitter railroad fight is
predicted before the legislature convenes
Rumors are current here today, hat the Cen.
tral Vermont has been leased by the Boston
& Maine, but they are pronounced without
foundation by the directors of the Northern
Railroad.
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AGAIN THREATENED.
Plans for a Big Strike in the Building
Trades in Chicago.

CHICAGO, April 2S.
A strike directly affecting five or six thou
sand nod carriers and laoorers, and necessa-
rily involving practically all the bricklayerss,
nlssterers and stone mssons in Chicago, will
probably be inaugurated May LIST and the
building operation. in Chicago promise to be
Indefinitely suspended again. The hod car.
r;srs and iaborers, following the example of
painters and carpenters. made demand some
months ago for higher wages and shorter
hours. Since then the employers association
has twice decided not to accede to the de-
mand. The men have persisted, naming May
let as the day when the demand should be
The move made today by the master ma.
.ons and builders shows plainly that they will
resist such demand. Their action consists
in the issuing of formal circular giving no.
tice that members of the association Will re. re.
@ ens TO recognize the hod carriers union. The
na,ce,. of the union have begun arranging
for an immediate mass meeting at which 1t Is
exnected ev a strike will officially be declared.
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FOR EIGN NOTES.

1, is reported that Russia has proposed to
remit the Turkish war indemnify, in return
for a cessation Of territory in Asia minor.
Mr.. Pigott writes from Paris that he knows
nothing whatever about the alleged Parnell
letter
The London Standard says that Sir Henry
DrummOnd Wolf, British commissioner in
Egypt, has fixed the evacuation of Egypt by
the British at Ave years hence.
The Cork Herald publishes secret crcu-
lar from Chief Inspector horiarty to the
district police inspectors in Kerry, Island,
complaining of the failure, in spite Of power
full inducements, to discover the organizers
of raids for arms and other offences. and ur
gng them to redoubled efforts in that direc-
ton.
Advices from Scutar, Albania, state that
the Merdites have killed seven Turkish SOL
diers for interfering with the tomb of the
noted leader, Bib Dada.
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ANXIOUS WATCHERS.
A Lot of Fishermen Blown to Sea in
Gale-Several Drowned.
YARMOuTH. N s.. Anri

YARMOUTH, N S.. April 2S.
The people of Tusket Islands and the
mainland have passed 48 hours of terrible
anxiety. These Islands are great lobster
fishing grounds and this season while the
market is good, there is every inducement to
ship Holsters to Boston.
Tuesday afternoon there was gale aud
the men were unable to go out to their traps.
Towards 5 O'Clock the wind died out and
boats put out by scores to take bbsters.
They had just about time to go to the traps.
when the gale came up with increased vio-
lence and blew with wild fury all night. To
return was impossible and the families on
shore spent an awful night of suspense When
morning came nothing could be seen Of the
fishermeu's boats and all were supposed lost
Not until this morning when several steam
ers and schooners arrived was any definite
information as to the fate of the men receiv-
ed. Albert Harris of Little River is known
to have been drowned. His brother, Frank
Harris, is supposed to be drowned. A boat,
the owner of which 10 not known, was found
ashore on one of the islands bottom up. C..
Muse IF Commeris Hill is missing. Many
miraculous escapes are reported.
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HUNTERS FOR FILTHY LUcRE
ihey Board a Train Near Tucson, Arizo.
"a, and GObble About s5,OOO-rhe Ex.
press Messenger Throws $500 in
0Gold into the stove.
SAN FRAscIsco AMI, 90

DAN FRANCISCO, April 2S.
Ohe OF the most audaclous, desperate and
successfui tram robbeIies ever recorded, oc-
CURED yesterday on the west bound overland
train on the Southern Pacific railroad near
Tucson, Arizona
A dispatch from Tucson saws: The west
pound express due here at 1880 last niob,
was stopped and robbed at Papago station
eighteen miles east of here, about $50. A
number of men were engaged in the robbery.
varlously esin,ttd at from five to eiyht.
Col. Harper. the engineer. when approach.
ing tne fapago side station. was signalled by
req light to stop. He slowed down, and as
ne approached the light he noticed obstruc-
tions On the track, 50 placed that in case he
ialied 10 stop the engine would spread the
track and derail itself Immediately alter
stopping dozen or more shots were fred
INTO Inc express car, and man with pistol
IN esch hand boarded the locomotive and
commanded the engineer not to get down.
Ihe other robbers had in the meantime been
prylhg open the express car, and failing to
get 1t open, put stick of giant powder under
IL and complied Harper, the engineer, to
llgnt fuse attached. This he was obliged
to do; but to avoid being blown up the mes.
senger opened the car and the robbers took
possession. They then uncoupled the engine
baggage and express car from the remainder
of the train and made Harper pull ahead two
lengths. This being done Harper was again
put on and the robbers took charge of the
engine and pulled six miles towards Tucson
Here they killed the engine and left it. Dur
ing the run the robbers went throught the
mail and express cars, but didn'1 get more
than $4,000. They got two packages of rail.
road money, one of Sl2l0 and one of $500,
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GARDINER.

The ladies of the Episcopal society are TO
give an orange tea at Library Hall, Friday
evening, the following ladies are to be hos
tresses to wit; Mrs. Henry Richards, Mrs.
Weston Lewis, Mrs. Wilcox. Mrs. Harry
White, Mrs. Dsnforth, Mrs. +. t. Brsdstreet.
Mrs. w. B. Neal, Mrs +. NJ, Putnam. Mrs.
5. c. Whitmore, Mrs. Eaton. Miss Adelaide
Cooper, Miss May White, Miss Bertha Par.
fridge, Miss Laura Lewis, Miss Alice White.
Miss Sampson, Miss Clara Robinson. Miss
Alice Whitmore, and Miss Jennie Cook.
We feel assured in stating that there can be
no opportunity of discounting the eatsbles
furnished on this occasion as they are to be
provide BY the ladies of that parish
Charles X. White went to Bath yesterday
afternoon.
Rufus Seabury is improving hi. residence
by making repairs.
The pay roll OF the Hollingsworth 4 Whit.
ney Paper Co.. amounts to $1,000 week
Chas. +. Pickering arrived home yester.
dsy morning after having purchased six
horses.
Z. +. Robbins was in the basement of a
machine shop Wednesday morning, mixing
ACID and water for the parpose of taking
scales of casting. While doing so he met
w" "h INJURY W Oll OF NltFOl
spattering on his right eyelid, which will
disable him from attending to his duties for a
few days.
1t is somewhat difficult to obtain drop of
liquor nowadays. The new law seems to
have had some effect.
The tug City of Lynn has towed up several
vessels through the bridge within the past
two days.
MIR Uriah I. Stone and family are expect
ed home today on account OF the failing
health of MIR. John T. Stone
Qiite a number of cases of measles in
Farmingdale.
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FIRE AT NEW YORK
Causes a Damage of One Hundred Thous.
sand Dollars.

New YORK, April 2s.
The six-story brick factory building, 223-
227, Canal Street Corner, was burned this
evening causing an estimated loss of $780,
600. The ground floor was occupied by j.
Strokheim & Co., manufacturers of uphols-
terry goods and curtain fixtures; J. Moore
Co.. dealer in fine furniture, and the New
York Furniture Supply Co. The basement
was used for storage purposes. The second
floor was occupied by Strokheim & Co., and
the third by ID. W. Osborn, agent for Phil
adelphhia maker of umbrella cases and bill
lizard table covers, and by the Union Tie Co.
The three upper lofts we're used by Hedlem
& Schleatter, manufacturers of dress and
cloak trimmings. The firm of Strokhem &
Co., carried stock of 100000; that of
Hedleim & Schleatter was valued a like
am)unt. ID. w. Osborn will lose S25 900,
and the occupants of the stores about $40, 900.
The building is damaged 100000. Tho losses
are nearly all covered by insurance.
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BLACK FLAGS
Will be Displayed in Paris on the Event
of the Queens Jubilee.

New YORK, April 2S.
A dispatch from Paris to the Herald says:
Irish residents in Paris intend to make mat
ters lively in reference to the Queens jubi-
lee. An Irish executive committee of which
Capt Dawson is chairman and Michael o.
Sullivan secretary, wa. formed in Paris and
a counter demonstration to that intended to
be held here to commemorate Queen Victo.
ria's jubilee was organized. This will assume
the form of banquet at which several black
flags will be displayed in memory,a as the COM
mittee says, of the famines that have scourged
Ireland during the Queens reign and of mar
tyrs who have died on the scaffold for the ma
tional cause. The most violent toasts will be
proposed at the banquet and most violent
speeches will be made. The executive COM
mittee issues circular to all Irishmen in
Paris, warning them under the seyerest pains
and penalties of treachery against taking any
part as loyalists in celebrating the Queens
jubilee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-29

Are you disturbed at night and broken OF
your rest by sick child suffering and cry
ing with pain Of cutting teeth2 If so, send
at once and get bottle of Mrs. WNsLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEErHrSe.
Its value is incalculable. 1t will relieve the
poor little sufferer Immediately. Depend
upon it, mothers, there is no mistake about
it, II cures dysentery and diarrboea,
regulates the stomach and bowels, cures
wind collie, softens the gums, reduces in
fsmmation, and gives tone and energy TO the
whole system. MRS. WIssLow's SOOTHING
SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEErHrxo is pleasant
TO the taste, and is the prescription Of one o!
the oldest and best female nurses and phy-
sicians in the United States, and is for sale
by all druggists throughout the world. Price
25 cents bottle.
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NO. 1()2:


aKSASsAw, PErIS Co., WIS, Dec. ., 1883.
For upward of fifty wears have used
brsndreth's Pills. am now nearly eighty
years old and in good health. That NV
faculties are still intact is due to this fact.
snd this only. that have almost relied on
hrsndreth's Pills TO the exclusion Of stronger
meoicines to restore me to health whenever
either seriously indisposed or in great suffer
ing from colds, hsck.sche, &c.. aud am
aeepiv grateful. next to my Maker, to the
pressed hsn who originated and placed with
IN reach of his fellow beings so simnls ana
efhcscious = remedy. For billion. dersngs-
ments and kidney disturbances, their useful
ness, IN my experience. is particularly
no'cesoie. MRS. FArErrE DIpoN.
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Pensions Granted.
WASHINGTON, April 2

WASHINGTON, April 90.
The following pensions have been granted
to Maine persons:
Alfred B. Walker, original, Peru.
Sylvanus Goose, original, Centre Lincoln
vile.
Moses Merrill, original, West Sumner.
Daniel w. Wentworth, original, China.
Freeman J. Emery, original, Mapleton.
Leonard P. Mann, original. Orono.
Harry A. Hallett, increase, Sidney.
Jonh @. Hussey, increase, North Green.l
Thomas p. Williams, increase, Temple.
Lorenzo d. French, increase, Hiram.
Hiram Stone, reissue, Simpsons Corner.
Charles b. Bessey, restoration, North
Woodstock.
Carlisle B. Sawtelle. reissue, Lowell.
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A correspondent asks; "Wherc can we
send to get Peck's Patent Ear Drums an in.
vention for enabling people to hear who are
deaf, slightly or otherwise?" Write to +.
Hiscox, S53 Broadway. n. Y, stating Cause
and particulars of your deafness and he will
give you all the points desired Read the
following from the Medical Record "A
lecturer IN one of our hospitals, while illus
trating progress in medical science, intro
duced deaf patient whose case bsfiled all
medical skill and was considered homeless.
But an invention belonging to f. Hiscox,
New York, having been recommended. il
was used with very satisfactory results, as
II fully restored the hearing. 1t was tested
in other eases and found to be more success
tul than any known device for the relief OF
deafness, as hearing lost for many years was
fully restored by IT. This invention is all
the more satisfactory as it is out of sight and
does not require to he held in position. And
while IT can be readily removed or inserted
by the patients themselves il is withal cura-
tive in action and comfortable to wear.
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GERMANY AND FRANCE.
Still Talking About the Tiresome Schnae.
bells Affair.

PARIS, April 2S.
M. Herbette, the French ambassador to
Berlin, telegraphs that Wednesday evening
he had an interview with Count Herbert Bis
marck, the German minister for foreign af-
fairs, and that the latter maintained that the
French territory was not violated when M.
Schnaebels was arrested.
M. Herbette adds, however, that Coaut
Bismarck states that Germany is inclined to
admit that the arrest was irregular and con-
trary to Franco German frontier convention
of 1877, and on this account will release M.
Schnaebels when letters, alleged to have been
written by NJ. Guntech, are proved to be au-
theptic.
The dispatch adds that it is believed that
the release of NJ. Schnaebels will take place
today, or at the latest. tomorrow.
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new York Produce Market.

~ Nkw Iohn. Aprn 20
800; No. 2, so a 10; fancy white Western, extra
a SIS q S 10; common to good, Is q 90. good te
choice, 4 90 AL 80; City mill extra, % 20
superfne, 27o q 3 IS; st. Louis extra, ; 20 8 10
winter vhea, extra, 20 s5l 10, Minnesota extra,
$40 a o5.
wHRAT-Receipts. 100 exports, 27e.slo, sales
NO. Red State. vi. No White State, 9ei.
Corn = Receipts $500 bushels; exports. 3s3sl
sales, 1874 0oc; spot No 3. 4s: No -
OArs-Keceipts, %. 600; sales. Is 0oo; No ., 81;
do Wht. 37i; No z. -. a 34i, do White. IS a 3si
No /, 80; do White, IS. Mixed Western. IS . 81,
White DO, 3s q ~; White State. 80 a 40
SUGAR-Cut loaf and crushed 81 n 81; granulatcd,
5i white extra c, NaS; yellow, u a u; mosId
81.
PErRoLEUM-United 67l bid.
PoRK Mess spot, Is 90 IS Is, clear back.
10 %.
LARI-renned, IS
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BOating News.
New HAVEN, Apr

New HAVEN, April %
II i. announced that the University crew
of Penn.yvania University, has challenged
Yale's University crew to four mile race az
New London. Yale has forwarded al acoeP
tance of the challenge, and Will at once ar
ra"se LONDON, April %.
The Cambridge boat club has appointed
,.r, n,;,tee 70 make arrangements with the
Iarva,d boat club for the race between Cam
hr;dge and Harvards crews in America some
t;me during September,
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ALBANY, N. Y, April %.
Resolutions were adopted TODAY in Senate,
requesting the insurance superintendent 10
state whether the fire insurance company OF
this State. with 100000 capital, had oeeh
refused permission to do business ~ MSssa
chusetts, and what reasons are as'isheu ~.
the refusal, and are they sumcien. or itns
of his State to secure companies privileges,
sccorded TO Massachusetts in this State, but
denied our companies in Massachusetts, and
if these privileges are denied shall not Mass
achusetts' companies be deprived OF the
riobt TO do business in this State.
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Astontshing A Success.

Ii is the duty of every person who has used
bosehee's German Syrup TO let its wonderful
qualities be known 10 their friends in curing
Consumption. severe Coughs, Group, Asth-
ma, Pneumonia, and in fact all throat and
lung diseases. No person can use /, without
immediate relief. Three doses will relieve
any case, and we consider it the duty OF all
druggists to recommend it to the poor, diving
consumptve, AT least 20 try one bottle. as
$4,000 dozen bottles were sold last wear, and
no one case where it failed VAS reported.
such medicine as the German Syrup cannot
be too widely known. Ask your druggist
about 1t. Sample bottles to trv, sold al 10
cents. Regular size. IS cents. Sold by all
druggists and dealers, in the United State,
and Canada. ian sldSwchxkv
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A Letter From Mr.. Bright.

LONDON, April 28.
Bright has written letter in which he
says: No government, liberal or conserva-
tive, is likely to promote measures like that
before Parliament, except under strong
sense of necessity. Such measures bring
the government much difficulty, rendering it
unpopular and interfering with other meas
ures with which the ministers are anxious to
proceed. In 1881 80, consented to meas
ures of repression tor the sake of law and Or
der. l was then a member of the government
What thought needful then consider need
full now and will not condemn the present
bill because it was introduced by the conser-
vatives.
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BASE BALL.

At New York-New York 4, Philsdelphis
5. puma
The following games were postponed on
account of rain:
AT Washington-Wss sshington- Boston.
At Pittsburg-Pittsburg Chicago.
No game at Manchester.
AT lndisnapolis-De,roit 4, Indianapolis 5.
At Boston-Bos,on Blues and Salems
VINO were to open the New England cham.
pionship season in Boston today were pre.
vented from playing the full game bv the
ram. Three and half innings were PLAYED
at the end of which the score stood 6 to 5 in
favor of the Sslems.
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The Geors etown Assault Case on Trial.

BATH, April 28.
VIM. II, Davis and son, George E., charged
with committing an assault upon Johu L.
Mains by striking him several blows on the
head with a sled stake, on the 18th of last
March at Georgetown, were arraigned in the
municipal court at Bath, Thursday and plead
not guilty to assault and battery Owing to
the absence of two important witnesses, the
case was continued to May 9Th. The re-
spondents were put under two hundred dol
lars bonds each. Mains was unconscious 4S
hours from the blows and his lite hung IN
balance for several weeks. The quarrel
grew out of cutting wood at halves
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He Had His Revenge.

WORCESTER. Mass, April 28.
Last night the barn of Sexton Douglass
at West Brookfield, with contents, was burned
by an incendiary. Loss $1,000; partly in
sured. Benz Sampson called at the house
of Douglass about o'clock and asked for
cider. Mrs. Douglass. who was alone, re-
fused, He said. II will burn your barn. >
He then went to a shelf, took some matches,
set fire and fed. Five hours later he was
arrested. Sampson was convicted in January
1875 for burning barn in West Brooktield
and sentenced to six years in State prison.
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Chronic Coughs and Colds

And all diseases of the Throat and Lungs can
be cured BY the use Of Scott's Emulsion, a.
it contains the healing virtues OF Cod Liver
Oil and Hypophosphites in their fullest form.
II consider SCOTS Emulsion the remedy
par-excellence in Tuberculous and Strumous
Affections, to say nothing Of ordinary colds
and throat troubles."-W. r. 8. CoHNELL,
N. D., Manchester, o. apr26deod&w4w